"Come on, put the fish in here!"

Baskets have long been seen by people in the tribe, but due to the problem of production, not many people use them.

The children had naturally seen it, and they had heard from their parents that the basket was easy to use, and when they heard Song Xuan put the fish in, they were somewhat excited.

Naturally, there is no problem with the baskets made up in the tribe for adults, even if they are full of things, everyone can bear it, but these children are a little choking.

So we have to let Uncle Deer and them cooperate, fortunately, there are still a few people in Shishui, after the children bring the fish, they help to put the fish into the basket, otherwise these children who are about the same height as Uncle Deer's back will have some difficulty in putting the fish on it.

Feeling the gradual increase in weight on his body, Uncle Lu did not move at all unusually, probably seeing that there were children all around, Uncle Lu still likes these children very much, because they often find the best grass and send it to the deer pen.

As the so-called cannibalism has a short mouth, frequent feeding is not just a familiar face, at least the feelings are still deeper.

There are not many fish in the two baskets, and everyone is a little bigger, so they are a little more than half, even so that the children can be a lot easier, and the rest of the small fish can be carried by two or three per person.

In this way, when each fishing is about to end, let one or two children go back and pull the deer and them over, and it will not take much effort to transport the fish back to the tribe, after all, the distance is not too close now, and it is indeed a bit laborious to let the children get it back.

Uncle Lu's family was quite cooperative, and walked over slowly, as if it was a night walk.

It's the height of summer, and it's not as hot as it was in later generations, but it's not much cooler.

And there is no air conditioning fan here, all rely on natural cooling, especially after wearing a thick animal skin, it is even hotter, most people are also wearing a small apron, it is regarded as covering the ugliness, women at most are also wrapped on the chest and a slightly wider animal skin, to ensure that there is no leakage.

Song Xuan still wants to be a little bit more traditional, and he really can't accept being so exposed in front of so many people, in addition to the small leather band, there is also a small vest on his upper body, although it has been hollowed out in many places, but it is definitely still a lot hotter than others.

Fortunately, it is close to the forest and the river, so once it is night, it will cool down quickly, and there are not as many mosquitoes here as in later generations, so everyone can wait outside until it is cool before going home.

In the summer, Xiaohe has become everyone's favorite place, and Song Xuan usually urges everyone who doesn't necessarily take a bath, and now they will soak in the water every day, which has also become a reserved item after dinner.

Soaking in the cold river water, looking at the rice that was already full of rice, Song Xuan was also very satisfied.

Since the flowering, Song Xuan has increased the amount of water in the rice field, so the rice grows quite well, and there are one or twenty grains on each plant.

Most of them are still relatively full, and there are not too many hollow drums, and compared to the wild rice on the other side of the river, the tribe is obviously much better than the one planted in the tribe.

It should not take long for the harvest to be harvested, because the first batch of plants has begun to turn yellow, indicating that it should be fully ripe in the last few days.

Song Xuan was also thinking about whether to wait for Shi Meng and them to come back this time and not go out for the time being, and wait for the rice to be harvested before taking the next step, and from Song Xuan's opinion, rice is still more important than hunting.

It had been more than a month since the last salt was refined, and everyone had hardly relaxed for more than a month, and the hunting party set off again the day after it returned.

The collection team is also running back and forth, bringing back as much food as possible, although the wild fruit rhizomes can't be put for a long time, but now eating can also save some meat consumption, some don't know what the rhizomes can also be put for a while, if it is not for the weather is too hot now, even good protection, wintering is not a problem.

Four or five acres of rice is definitely not going to need so many people in the tribe, but Song Xuan still wants everyone to participate in advance, because with these rice seeds as a foundation, next year's planting area will definitely increase by several grades.

At that time, everyone will know the purpose of Song Xuan's this, and even if the output is good this year, this year will allow everyone to taste it once or twice in advance, and it must be very wonderful to cook meat porridge in winter.

Although the planting area is not large, Song Xuan still asked Shi Ban and them to start making a tool for harvesting rice, Song Xuan initially thought of making the kind of saw sickle commonly used in later generations, but whether it was polished with stones or bones, the durability was not very good.

Especially the freshly ripe rice plants are very tough, even if they can be cut, they will be dull after a few times, and Song Xuan feels a little choked when he uses them to cut the grass, not to mention the tougher rice.

In the end, they could only let Shi Ban polish a moon-shaped scimitar, which could be held directly in their hands, and when the time came, both hands would cooperate to find an angle to cut off the top section of rice, anyway, what they needed now was rice.

Although the following is also very useful, in addition to making a fire for cooking, it is also good to build a house, but without a suitable knife, it is still a little difficult to harvest it.

Although thatch is just as troublesome to make, but fortunately it is much wider than straw, and this kind of small dwarf plant of less than half a meter is still not available in the tribe for the time being.

The first batch of rice planted was ready to be harvested, and it happened that more than twenty stone knives were polished for harvesting, so Song Xuan took more than a dozen people in the tribe to adapt in advance.

The knife edge is a little under the ear of rice, and it is cut off with a bend and a stroke, which is not so easy to use at first, and some people even want to break it directly with their hands, but after really getting started, the speed becomes faster.

Although it is not much effortless, the speed is definitely a lot faster than going down one by one.

But even so, the scimitar still needs to be resharpened every once in a while, and the good ones are relatively small, and they are much faster than ordinary weapons.

It took more than a dozen people half a day to harvest the rice on more than half of the land.

The next step is to get the rice down, and then dry it and store it, which is not too difficult at all.

In the current weather, the rice can be completely dried by drying it outside for two days.

Although he had to pluck the rice down one by one, Song Xuan felt that it was still necessary to do so, first, if it was like this in the field, it would inevitably slow down a lot, especially now that the weather was too hot, even if Song Xuan took everyone, he went out at dawn, and when he did it at noon, he couldn't stand the heat one by one.

This is not in other places, whether it is hunting or gathering, most of the situation is in the forest, such weather, Shi Meng will also avoid hunting on the grass, first, it is too hot to stand it, and secondly, no wild beast will be stupid enough to bask in the sun outside on such a day.

As for the children's fishing, although they are also exposed to the sun, they can soak in the river most of the time, and if it is really hot, it is good to burrow into the river and it will soon cool down.

Harvesting rice here is different, the whole process is under the scorching sun, do you have any equipment that can block the sun, take the animal skin on the top, and it is very stuffy, fortunately, it only worked for half a day, if you go out in the hottest time in the afternoon, it is estimated that you will have heat stroke one by one.

Although Song Xuan took into account the hot weather, he took everyone out to work in the morning, but he didn't expect it to be so hot.

Now it's too late to remedy it, the easiest thing is definitely to wear a hat or something, but to be honest, even a hat is not very easy to do, and then you can only use weeds and branches to weave a grass ring out, which is regarded as a shade.

However, although the sunscreen is out, you can add a few small sheds in the field, and you can also rest under the shed when you are tired.

Although the distance is not far and it is close to the river, there is definitely no time to take a bath or run back to the tribe when you are busy, and there is such a place to cool off, which can relieve the heat to some extent.

Song Xuan took the rice down, while thinking about the large-scale harvest later, although it was only half of the land, but the amount of rice harvested was not small, although it was not dry now, it could not represent the actual yield, but Song Xuan checked it, it is estimated that forty catties must be there, even if the water in it is evaporated in the next day or two, it should not be a problem to leave about thirty catties at that time.

If this yield is placed in future generations, it will definitely not be seen, and if anyone grows rice like this in such a good environment, it is estimated that it will be ridiculed by the people of the whole country for a lifetime.

But this is a primitive society, Song Xuan has also seen it, even in the later agricultural dynasties, the rice yield is only three or four hundred catties, although the yield of the rice planted by himself is not high, so it is only about one hundred and fifty catties, but you must know that this is a pure wild rice seed, this is also the first time that the tribe has planted it, and it is quite perfect to have this yield.

This dichotomy alone is about the same as the number of rice seeds planted.

The next harvest is pure profit, according to this calculation, the area that can be planted next year, it is estimated that it is not a problem to multiply it by ten on the existing basis.

If it goes well, the daily needs of ordinary people in the tribe will be met by planting rice.

Of course, it depends on how the remaining rice grows, and these last few days are the most critical time, or it should be all ripe in six or seven days.

Fortunately, the weather has been quite strong in recent times, since the heavy rain for most of the month, there has been no threatening rain here, although people are hotter, but it is not a bad thing for rice planting, the tribe is not short of water by the river, and if it rains, it is a bad thing for the rice that is about to ripen, if it cannot be harvested in time, it will definitely rot in the field.